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W. S. HUNTER.

Stock Car.

No. 231,425. Patented Aug. 24,1880.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

WILLIAM S. HUNTER, OF BELLEVILLE, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF OF HIS RIGHT TO JOSEPH KELLOGG FULLER, OF OOLBORNE, ONTARIO, CANADA.

STOCK-CAR.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 231,425, dated August 24, 1880. Application filed April 19, 1880. (No model.) Patented in Canada March 19, 1880.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, WILLIAM STEWART HUNTER, otBelleville, in the county of Hastings, Province of Ontario, and Dominion of Canada, have invented certain Improvements in Cattle-Oars, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to the conversion of the cattle or any other suitable box car in on 1o dinary use into a car provided with boxes or stalls, one for each animal, by means of portable partitions or gates placed and secured in a diagonal position to the sides of the car, and

to a portable water and feed trough supported by movable posts or standards, or suspended from the roof of the car by means of chains or other suitable contrivance, thereby dividing the car into two tiers of stalls or compartments of a rhomboidal form; also, to the providing a hay-rack, suspended from the roof of the car and filled from the outside through trap-doors in the roof of the car, the object of my invention being to permit of the greatest number of cattle (or other stock) being placed 2 5 in a car and of being watered and fed while in transit, thereby saving time in transportation from the place of shipment to the place of destination. and leaving the stock in a much better condition at the end of the journey than 0 it is possible to do with the means of trans portation at present in vogue. Sheep or hogs may also be carried and fed in transit by putting in another trough under the one provided for the cattle, and the stalls can be used 3 5 as pens and made of any size that may be required. At the same time the first cost of the fittings are, comparatively speaking, small,

and the fittings can be unshipped very expeditiously and stowed away in the car if it should be required for any other description of return freight.

Figure 1 isa plan of a half-car embodying my invention. Fig. 2 is a vertical transverse section of the same. Fig. 3 is a vertical ion- 4 5 gitndinal section of the same.

A represents an ordinary cattle or box car to be provided with stalls; B, standards or posts, made of wood or iron, screwed or otherwise secured to the floor of the car, and upon and to which standards is fastened the water and feed trough O. This trough is fixed along the center of the car longitudinally, and can be made of wood or iron, and has staples D, or any other suitable contrivance, placed or fixed at convenient distances apart along each 5 5 side of the trough O, to which are attached one end of the partitions G. This trough is made in four lengths, the two outer ones, 7, being only of sufficient length to permit of an animal passing around the outer end of the inner and longer lengths, C, When the short lengths O are removed, and is secured to each end of the car by means of books, or in any other convenient method, and a space is left between the two inner ends of the longer 6 lengths O of the trough to permit the animals passing through to the other side of the car. This space is closed by a bar or brace, E, which is placed in position after the farther side of the car from the entrance-door is filled.

F are staples or othersuitable contrivances fixed along the sides of the car at convenient distances.

G are partitions or gates, made of wood or iron, which divide each half of the car into a tier of boxes, stalls, or compartments, H, of a rhomboidal form, thereby getting the greatest number of cattle into each half of the car. These gates or partitions are hung on the staples F or D, and swing outward toward the 30 door. As each animal is driven into its stall the gate is closed after it. These partitions may be shifted from one set of staples to another, so as to increase or diminish the width of the stalls to suit the size of the animal, 8 and may extend down to the car-floor, as shown in the drawings, or may be kept up several inches therefrom.

I are openings in each end of the car for ventilation, and also to allow the hose being passed through them when filling the watertroughs.

J is a receptacle or rack for hay, made of wood or iron, hinged at the bottom, and suspended from the roof of the car by horizontal 5 iron rods or other suitable contrivance, and

when filled with hay it takes the form of a, V, The combination of the trough G, rack J, but is susceptible of being drawn up to the and the stalls ILarranged substantiallyns and to roof when not in use. for the purposes hereinbet'ore set forth. K are holes 01' trap-doors in the roof for fill- WILLIAM STEWART HUNTER. 5 lug the tack J.

I make no claim to the form or framing of Witnesses: the car; but WILLIAM IETTETT NILES,

I claim us my invention- \VILLIAM STEWART DREWRY. 

